The Democratic Republic of Neratica is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by The Prime Minister with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, anti-smoking policies, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 6.57 billion Neraticans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nertania. The average income tax rate is 98.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Neratican economy, worth a remarkable 1,535 trillion nerats a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 233,720 nerats, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

Park rangers struggle to deal with a rash of stolen pic-a-nic baskets, black market eau de toilette is made in bathroom labs across the nation, the government denies that it has an agency overseeing plausible deniability of black-ops agencies, and corrupt officials have adopted the greater good as their catchphrase. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Neratica's national animal is the chicken-bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Neratica is ranked 11,684^th in the world and 524^th in Balder for Highest Poor Incomes, with 117,829.36 Standard Monetary Units.